The Kat Holloway series is one of my favorites in the historical mystery genre. Kat, being a cook, and there being all the food references doesn’t hurt at all. It’s a difficult time in history for women with limited choices. Kat is starting to ponder these options for Grace. Kat’s current post has the advantage […]
The Kat Holloway series really heats up with this dive into personal mysteries for her and her friends to solve in this upstairs-downstairs historical mystery setting. The Secret of Bow Lane is the sixth in the Kat Holloway series featuring a Victorian era cook who does some amateur detecting. There is an ongoing storyline about […]
It is such a comfort to read a series like the Kat Holloway mysteries, where you know and love the characters. Of course, in a series, at least a good one, the characters continue to grow and progress. I love learning more about them, especially mysterious ones like Daniel. In a historical world, the options […]
I was very happy to continue the Kat Holloway mysteries. Each mystery is standalone though there is an ongoing series arc for Kat’s personal and relationship developments. I know and love many of the characters and I understand the world even if I don’t like some of it. Women of any class have few rights […]
When orphan children and their nurse disappear from the London Foundling Hospital, Kat joins Daniel and a surprising ally to work against the clock before they disappear for good. The downstairs, working class situation of the amateur detective heroine in this series grabbed my focus from the start and I love seeing her as a […]